"So
it begins in the life of a woman who is wanting. She does not
want for a man, nor for a child. She wants to be filled like a
cornucopia past the point of overflow. The issue is emptiness
of the sort that grows from the inside out regardless of one's
productivity, like hunger when it is for love or creative work
or some other soul food." -Nor Hall

"The problem lies not so much with some
feminists' concept of what femininity is, but rather with their
misconception -- shared with the public at large -- of what art is:
with the naïve idea that art is the direct, personal expression
of individual emotional experience, a translation of personal life
into visual terms. Art is almost never that, great art never
is." -Linda Nochlin

"I can not be so many things, I can not be
something for everyone. . . woman, beautiful, artist, wife,
housekeeper, cook, saleslady all these things. I cannot even be
myself, not know who I am. I must find something clear, stable
and peaceful within myself within which I can feel and find some
comfort and satisfaction."
- Eva Hesse

"When
you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You
must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over
several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery,
the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it,
makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result
of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur" - Pablo Picasso

"An artist needs to become familiar
with that which is most hidden from the self by the self
for this one thing which one fears to know is often the driving
force in one's life. These recognitions seen in art are
the difference between decent and extraordinary and great." - Pat Stier